Little Hands Great Jobs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Little Hands Great Jobs

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

Cultural Heritage – our cuisine, writing, arts, the native language, kids’ games, folk dances, songs – all this is just an unseperable part of our life that makes us consider ourselves as a generation. Passing all this heritage from generations to generations we construct a strong bridge which establishes a bond between the past and the future through the present understanding of the eternality of culture by the school which is the major dynamic in this sphere.

Our project is based on the partnership of Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Turkey where the survey held among students has shown a deficiency of knowledge of historic and cultural sites refering to Cultural Heritage of their countries. Then, students of these countries do not destinguish in full between tangible and intangible objects of Cultural Heritage. Moreover, they face a kind of problem in naming the sites of Cultural Heritage of their partner countries.

One of their latest works of the European Union is announcing 2018 as “The European Year of Cultural Heritage”. EU’s slogan is “Europe, a common heritage.” Cultural heritage brings Europeans together, whatever their cultural, linguistic or religious backgrounds. https://europa.eu/youth/node/50_en

Our project is aimed at “Increasing Quality and Productivity of Education” which is one of EU 2020 Education 4 main strategic aims, via Cultural Heritage Sharing; and one of the Europe Key Criterions” increasing the rate of learning a foreign language and including their own native language all EU citizens’ learning a foreign language.”

We will learn and teach values which are common and different with European countries, to provide cross_cultural interaction without discrimination of language, religion and race by dealing with tangible intangible natural and cultural values in our project.

PARTICIPANTS
In our 24-month-long project, there are six participant countries: Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Turkey with the students aged between 6 and 18. Our partners Portugal and Latvia have experience of 4 strategic partnerships; Greece – 1 (as a coordinating country); Portugal, Lithuania and Poland have experience of school education staff mobility. This project will be the first international experience for Turkey, the coordinating country.

Each country will send 4 students, at least one of them – disadvantaged and 2 teachers for the mobilities. Mobility in Turkey lasts for 5 days and the other mobilities lasts for 3 days. The first mobility will be in Lithuania which has ‘’e-Twinning School Label’’ and Teacher Training on ‘’e-Twinning will be held there. The other mobilities will be conducted with the students.

Activities will be performed in 4 main cathegories;
Preparation Activities
Training Activities
Activities that will support the cultural interaction
Mobility Activities

AIMS
* Recognition,protection and maintenance of cultural hertage values.
* Development in ability of a foreign language.
* Providing opportunities for the students with disadvantages.
* Enriching the students and teachers’ sufficiencies.
* Creating a perspective which is adopting cultural differences with tolerance.
* Developing some of 8 Europe Key Criterions;
-Communication in the native language and a foreign language.
-Sufficiency of digital platform/digital competence.
-Learning to learn.
-Social and citizenship sufficiencies/and civic competence .
-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and ability of expression.
* Creating the awareness of importance of cultural heritage.
* Adding new participants to European cultural heritage.
* Providing the communication among cultures including teachers and students at an early age.
* Recognizing cultural values which are common and different from European countries.
* Providing intercultural dialogue whatever their religion language or race is.
* Increasing their goods in cultural heritage over 80%

Dissemination activities will be performed on 4 different levels; local, regional, national and EU, just after the acceptance of our project.
The results of our project will be shared on the Erasmus+ platform of dissemination after it is completed.
The web site of our project will be online and posts will go on.
Activities which are low-cost or no-cost will continue.
New e-Twinning and Erasmus+ projects will be organised with different partners due to our experience which we would gain in this project.
Our new students will be informed of the project, their attention will be drawn and they will be motivated for different international projects.
E-book created by the partners will reach masses.
Project posts will go on accounts of the social media.
A short movie created as a product of the project will be shared with TV channels.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 177522 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Ilkokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• 19th Primary School of Katerini
• Szkola Podstawowa w Jezierzycach
• Agrupamento de Escolas do Cerco
• Kauno Stepono Dariaus ir Stasio Gireno gimnazija
• Rigas 18 vakara (mainu) vidusskola